Saturday, March 11, 2006

Flu and War

Maybe the bird flu will answer the question of when the troops come home.

Who will be able to control what they may bring with them?


"In 1918-19 the enormity of the pandemic was not uppermost in most peoples' minds, due partly to the tendency of human nature to shut out bad experiences, and the fact that most were more concerned with the concepts of the war. Indeed, influenza may have played a role in ending the conflict as soldiers were too sick to fight and more men, on both sides, died of influenza than were killed by weapons."

from one of the links offered in the history link at the right.

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